The American WestScribner, 1994 - 461 עמודים "Beginning with the demise of the Native Americans of the Plains, Brown depicts the onrush of the burgeoning cattle trade and the waves of immigrants who ultimately "settled" the land. In the retelling of this oft-told saga, Brown has demonstrated once again his abilities as a master storyteller and an entertaining popular historian. Byturns heroic, tragic, and even humorous, The American West brings to life American tragedy and triumph in the years from 1840 to the turn of the century, and a roster of characters both great and small: Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, Dull Knife, Crazy Horse, Captain Jack, John H. Tunstall, Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, Wyatt Earp, the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, Wild Bill Hickok, Charles Goodnight, Oliver Loving, Buffalo Bill, and many others. The American West is about cattle and the railroads; it is about settlers who came to claim a land not originally their own and how they slowly imposed law and order on these wild and untamed places; and it is about the wanton destruction of the Native American way of life. This is epic history at its best and popular history at its most readable" (from Amazon.com). |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-3 מתוך 56
עמוד 310
... Story . His journey , while not as long in distance as Tom Ponting's eastern drive from Texas to Illinois in 1852 , was all overland , and was certainly more fraught with perils , suspense , and high drama . Nelson Story , born in Ohio ...
... Story . His journey , while not as long in distance as Tom Ponting's eastern drive from Texas to Illinois in 1852 , was all overland , and was certainly more fraught with perils , suspense , and high drama . Nelson Story , born in Ohio ...
עמוד 312
... Story indicated that he would be moving on north despite the colonel's warning , Carrington ordered him to halt the herd and wait for permission to leave the vicinity of the fort . Story was fuming with impatience , but not wishing to ...
... Story indicated that he would be moving on north despite the colonel's warning , Carrington ordered him to halt the herd and wait for permission to leave the vicinity of the fort . Story was fuming with impatience , but not wishing to ...
עמוד 409
... story of the Old West is its expanding reach around the earth . Human beings in many a faraway nation often know the story better than they know their own legends . They organize Wild West clubs , cowboy clubs , Amer- ican Indian clubs ...
... story of the Old West is its expanding reach around the earth . Human beings in many a faraway nation often know the story better than they know their own legends . They organize Wild West clubs , cowboy clubs , Amer- ican Indian clubs ...
תוכן
LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS | 13 |
LIST OF MAPS | 15 |
INTRODUCTION | 17 |
זכויות יוצרים | |
30 קטעים אחרים שאינם מוצגים
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Abilene American Apaches army attack band battle became began Billy the Kid Black Bozeman Trail brand Buffalo Bill camp Captain Jack Carrington cattle cattlemen cavalry Charles Goodnight Cheyennes chief Colonel Colorado Comanches cowboys Crazy Horse Creek Crook Custer Dakota dance Dodge City Earp Fetterman fight fire Fort Phil Kearny frontier Goodnight guns herd Hills Hooker Jim Horn hunting Indians John Joseph killed Kiowas land Laramie later Little lodges Longhorns McSween Mexico miles Missouri Modocs Montana mountains moved Nez Percés night Oregon Panhandle peace pioneer plains ponies Powder prairie raid railroad ranch ranchers range Red Cloud reservation riders riding River rode rodeo roundup saloons scouts settlers Shoshones shot Sioux Sitting Bull soldiers soon Story Territory Texans Texas thousand Tom Horn trail drive trail towns train treaty tribes valley wagon warriors Western White Bear Wild West Show wounded Wyatt Earp Wyoming York